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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

So when I was in my last year of pulmonary critical care fellowship, we had two week elective. Kate: And I kept saying, I want to do end of life care research with Scott Halpern and that’s what I did. You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

And typically, in the education around facilitating those conversations, we’re focused on eliciting goals and what are that individual’s goals of care and how does that direct the plan right now, knowing that some of those decisions, even if you make a choice now aren’t actually going to come into play for days, weeks, months.